bro, the internet is 100% compromised. see nsa laying shit on underwater cables, tapping all phones, all webcams doing deals with microsoft and a dozen other companies such as pc hardware companies to install backdoors lol microsoft and nsa like 12 years open business deals

ffs

OF COURSE THE FUCKING DARPA NET IS COMPROMISED.

THE PURPOSE OF THE WARRANT CANARY IS TO INFORM US OF SOMETHING LITERALLY DESIGNED TO STOP US FROM EVER KNOWING ABOUT IT.

IT'S A KNOWLEDGE-DISSEMINATION-PROTECTION TOOL.AND IT JUST WORKED :( :(

I think you should avoid using all caps, makes you look like a crazy person. I myself sometimes feel the urge to allcaps some words when i feel emotional.
Back on topic, i dont see any last edit date on the canary announcement. When was it posted? Looks like shit hit the fan in October.

U know that VOAT is owned by NSA ( Thiel Palantir ), so it was compromised at birth, and is largely nothing more than a chatter feed to Thiel Palantir which is a pre-crime software package for NSA.

IMHO the purpose of VOAT is that its a tunable box that gives false-positives/false-negatives clue to compare the known world with the unknown, given NSA(Thiel) has universal control over Voat they can develop any thing here, test the response and then release into the wild.

MY old retired NSA friends always like to point out what the NSA looks for is a cackle of geese meeting or communicating, in one common location, electronic or physical. That put's up their antenna.

The lone-wolf is a threat, but an impossible threat to counter; The group, is easy to catch; Just watch the formation of groups and act.

Were it not the time of year it is I would be much more concerned but the holidays have a tendency to cause people to not focus on things like updating the canary. Especially when this isn't your actual paying job. Right now it is just a thing to note. In a week or so it becomes pretty certain that something is up.

I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT 20 OR SO HOURS AGO ATKO CAME ON AND UPDATED THE FEATURED SUB AND HAD A NOTIFICATION POSTED TO HIM ABOUT THE CANARY YESTERDAY.

I'd like to point out that the warrant canary does not state that it will be updated on any particular timeframe. If it isn't updated as of right this moment that is always indication that they may have received a warrant since the last update. Freak whenever you feel like it.

The point of warrant canaries is that National security letters and secret warrants typically include verbiage that state that the recipient is not permitted to state that they have or have not received said document.

As such, once you receive one, you're not actually allowed by law to continue posting your warrant canary, as that would be stating you have not received it.

Because US alphabet agencies give a fuck about legality of their action when it comes to blackmailing people, sure. Anyone that trusts warrant canaries to warn of possible compromising is a gullible fucking retard, that's what.

they can stop you from telling a truth, like a part of a contract to not tell corporate info to a spouse.

but they can't force you to lie

with the admins regularly pressing the button within 30 days we KNOW by inferring that one of the above silencing-tools has been put in place because it stops being regularly pressed within the defined interval.

these silencing-tools can't force them to press a button saying they haven't gotten one when they have, that's a lie.

the ONLY PURPOSE OF THIS TOOL IS SO THAT WE THE WORLD KNOW THE FACT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS LITERALLY DESIGNED TO KEEP THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO KNOW ABOUT IT FROM TELLING US.

it's a knowledge-dissemination-protection tool.

and it just sadly worked.

inb4 admins were busy/vacationing/omg something fucking else.

*ns letters May be already being used to force lies. warrant canaries cannot be considered useful FOR NS LETTERS ONLY, simply because they may be used to force lies.

It means it's time to begin scoping out new places and making backup plans so we aren't splintered into oblivion when the inevitable happens to this site/community. Would be premature to abandon now, but stupid to not have alternatives lined up. In my experience, this means the slow death is coming. We still have at bare minimum, six months to abandon ship successfully. More than likely we have three years before this place will be completely unrecognizable.

The formula is the same every time, you won't see it happening but some of the seeds have been down. Have you not noticed the sheer amount of subs that direct link to garbage sites now while simultaneously banning @derram bot that automatically makes archives?

What about that @henrycorp mod that mods like an SJW faggot in his little corner of voat, controlling leftist messages and ideology. Or how about @thunderlark who has multiple subs devoted to helping downvoat bots, alts, shills, and trolls bypass the 100 CCP requirement? If you read the content of some of his subs there, he regrets not naming it for Lord Spez (reddit admin) and in general is a place for those types to get easy CCP.

Another thing you'll notice or won't will be "celebrity" harassment. That's the power users of the site that you have likely seen around from time to time. You may or may not like what they bring to the table, but you've likely noticed them. Users like @LockeProposal@sanegoatiswear@kosherhivekicker etc. that tend to contribute will be harassed by a dedicated but small group. Probably those v/SBBH faggots if we're being totally honest. But they will be relentlessly and consistently attacked in an effort to force those types of users off the site altogether.

The people who do this sort of thing are a little predictable, but it is an unfortunately effective tactic to begin implementing control of a social media platform.

With the power users I mentioned, watch, basically everything they say/do will have odd downvoats and oftentimes vicious and cruel comments thrown their way pretty regularly.

@agilemittens to add to this, the canary not being updated is worrying. I think they update it on a roughly monthly basis, so either it will happen soon, or* perhaps (in)SaneGoatiSwear could be right. But there's no need to jump the gun and say definitively that we're compromised.

He jumps to conclusions far too often and it keeps people from taking him seriously, myself included.